Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
The idea of sidechains as a scaling and feature extension mechanism for Bitcoin is a very old concept. A kind of basic "ancestor" idea of sidechains, merge mined chains, even goes back to before Satoshi disappeared. That proposal was simply the idea...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
The below is a direct excerpt of Marty's Bent Issue #1231: “BIP 324 would bring encryption to bitcoin's P2P layer and it needs some review.” Sign up for the newsletter here. Visualizing how encrypting data can obfuscate network connections...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is a recording of a recent Twitter Spaces conversation about the Australian baseball team, Perth Heat, moving to a bitcoin standard. Listen To This Twitter Spaces: Transcript [0:06] Perth Heat: We had a great experience of credit to the whole...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is an opinion editorial by Marie Poteriaieva, a Ukrainian-French crypto industry observer and educator, following the space since 2016. Bitcoin is routinely treated as an environmental pariah: its energy consumption is quite simple to track and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Magazine - 2 years ago
This is an opinion editorial by Leon Wankum, one of the first financial economics students to write a thesis about Bitcoin in 2015. As I walk through the ruins of Machu Picchu, an Incan citadel built in the heights of the Andes Mountains in Peru and...
